Evacuation sites, shelters, hazard maps, free bousai items and emergency numbers for Meguro City, Tokyo. Names and addresses are shown in Japanese, exactly as on official signs and maps.
What 目黒区 offers residents to make homes safer in a quake. Official pages are in Japanese; we summarise and translate. Rules change: check the page before applying.
Covers distribution-board types and high-performance simple types, which cut power a few minutes after shaking so you keep light to evacuate.
Target areas: all of Meguro-honcho 5 and 6 and Haramachi 1; parts of Haramachi 2, Senzoku 1 and Himonya 1 (see the ward map). Wooden buildings only; you must not be behind on last year’s resident tax.
General households: 2/3 of the work cost (excl. tax) up to ¥50,000. Special households (特例世帯): 10/10 up to ¥80,000.
Apply AFTER installation with the documents to 防災課. Ends when the budget runs out.
How Tokyo rates each neighbourhood (町丁目) of 目黒区 for building collapse and fire spread in a big earthquake. Ranks are relative across Tokyo’s 5,192 surveyed areas: rank 5 is the highest risk, rank 1 the lowest.
Overall risk ranks in Meguro総合危険度ランク · 88 areas
Rank 50
Rank 42
Rank 313
Rank 240
Rank 133
TMG: “building collapse risk” measures how likely buildings are to collapse or tilt from shaking, based on ground and building type; “fire risk” measures the danger of fire spreading over a wide area; the overall rank combines both with how hard rescue and evacuation would be (災害時活動困難係数).
Highest-risk areasランク4・5の町丁目
Area (町丁目)
Overall
Collapse
Fire
Position /5,192
祐天寺１丁目
4
3
3
288
大岡山１丁目
4
2
3
358
Showing the 2 areas with the highest overall risk in 目黒区 (rank 4–5 only, highest first). Full list: TMG list for 目黒区.
37 designated emergency evacuation sites (37 designated for earthquakes) and 37 designated shelters in the national open data. Saved on your device after your first visit, so it works offline.
Read before using this list (GSI’s own notes, translated):
This data is what each municipality registered about the evacuation sites and shelters designated by the mayor under the Disaster Countermeasures Basic Act (Art. 49-4 and 49-7). It may not be the latest, or some facilities may not be listed, so always confirm the latest details with the ward.
Understand the difference between a “designated emergency evacuation site” and a “designated evacuation shelter”, and that evacuation sites are designated per type of disaster.
The data is updated from time to time.
Designated emergency evacuation site (指定緊急避難場所): “a place to evacuate to urgently to protect your life from the danger of a disaster. Designated for each type of disaster, such as landslides, floods, tsunami and earthquakes.” Designated evacuation shelter (指定避難所): “a facility where disaster victims who have evacuated stay for a certain period after a disaster.”
Spotted an error or something out of date? Email [email protected] with the page and the official source. Corrections help keep the ward pages accurate.